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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Earlier today I received a ping from one of my favorite customers. He showed QuixApp a nice bookmarklet that basically lets you do whatever you want. He thought this would be a good idea, for example, to create a bookmarklet that would simultaneously bookmark a page both in Lotus Connections and in del.icio.us.

I immediately answered that this has been available for a while, internally at IBM. The following bookmarklet was created by Sacha Chua and if you are browsing an internal page (e.g. w3.ibm.com/....) then the page is only bookmarked in Lotus Connections. If you are browsing an extranet site (e.g. www.cnn.com... ) then the page will be tagged in both services (you don't want internal/confidential pages to be accidentally saved to del.icio.us, right?).

Before you can use it with your own Lotus Connections deployment, you'll have to customize it a bit. Once you look at the code, you'll see something like this:

if(!location.href.match('.ibm.com'))

The first step is to change that from .ibm.com to whatever your company's hostname is. Next, you'll want to change the Lotus Connections URL. In the code you'll see something like this:

var%20h='http://w3.ibm.com/connections/dogear';

Again, change that to match the deployment of your organization and voilá.

Earlier today I received a ping from one of my favorite customers. He showed QuixApp a nice bookmarklet that basically lets you do whatever you want. He thought this would be a good idea, for example, to create a bookmarklet that would simultaneously bookmark a page both in Lotus Connections and in del.icio.us.

I immediately answered that this has been available for a while, internally at IBM. The following bookmarklet was created by Sacha Chua and if you are browsing an internal page (e.g. w3.ibm.com/....) then the page is only bookmarked in Lotus Connections. If you are browsing an extranet site (e.g. www.cnn.com... ) then the page will be tagged in both services (you don't want internal/confidential pages to be accidentally saved to del.icio.us, right?).

Before you can use it with your own Lotus Connections deployment, you'll have to customize it a bit. Once you look at the code, you'll see something like this:

if(!location.href.match('.ibm.com'))

The first step is to change that from .ibm.com to whatever your company's hostname is. Next, you'll want to change the Lotus Connections URL. In the code you'll see something like this:

var%20h='http://w3.ibm.com/connections/dogear';

Again, change that to match the deployment of your organization and voilá.